Programe Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants

	Friday, July 10th 2015
	8:30 : Welcome and Registration
	9:00 - 9:15 : Welcoming Introduction by Martin Crespi

	Session 1 : Regulation of Pre-mRNA processing
	Chair : Zofia Szweykowska-Kulinska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, POLAND
	Abstracts
	9:15 - 9:45 : Andreas Wachter - University of Tübingen Center for Molecular Biology of Plants - Tübingen - GERMANY Polypyrimidine tract binding proteins link alternative splicing with development in Arabidopsis 9:45 - 10:15 : Anireddy Reddy - Colorado State University - The College of Natural Sciences, Dept of Biology - Collins - USA A survey of the sorghum transcriptome using the single-molecule long reads 10:15 - 10:45 : 2 short talks Sang-Dong Yoo : Splicing regulator STA1 in heat stress adaptation Paula Duque : The Arabidopsis SR45 splicing factor, a negative regulator of sugar and ABA signaling, modulates stability of the energy-sensing SnRK1 protein kinase

	10:45 - 11:15 : Coffee break
	11:15 - 11:45 : Maria Kalina - Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences - Vienna - AUSTRIA Unmasking alternative splicing inside protein-coding exons defines exitrons and their role in proteome plasticity 11:45 - 12:45 : 4 short talks Artur Jarmolowski : NTR1 is required for transcription elongation checkpoints at alternative exons in Arabidopsis thaliana Sasha Laubinger : Uncovering the role of Serrate in general RNA metabolism Christiane Calixto : AS in the cold temperature response of Arabidopsis: AN RNAseq approach Chueh-Ju Shih : The role of photoreceptors in regulating alternative splicing in Physcomitrella patens

	12:45 - 13:45 : Lunch time

	Session 2 : RNA turnover and surveillance
	Chair : Dominique Gagliardi, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, FRANCE
	Abstracts
	13:45 - 14:15 : Gordon Simpson - Division of Plant Sciences - Dundee University - UNITED KINGDOM Processing the transcriptome and epitranscriptome 14:15 - 14:45 : Damien Garcia - Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes (IBMP) - Strasbourg - FRANCE A genetic approach of viral restriction and compatibility 14:45 - 16: 00 : 5 short talks Aleksandra Kwasnik : 5’ mRNA cap surveillance by AtDXO1 in Arabidopsis thaliana Orit Shaul : Regulation of the NMD pathway and its involvement in snoRNA-homeostasis Ho Ming Chen : Foot prints of ribosomes and exon junction complexes are widespread in RNA degradome Helene Zuber : URT1-mediated uridylation reparis deadenylated mRNAs to restore poly A binding protein site in Arabidopsis Kamil Ruzicka : N6-adenosyl methylation regulates vascular development and hormonal response in Arabidopsis

	16:00 - 16:30 : Coffee break

	Session 3 : Small RNAs
	Chair : Blake Meyers, University of Delaware, Newark, USA
	Abstracts
	16:30 - 17:00 : Zofia Szweykowska-Kulińska - Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology - Faculty of Biology - Adam Mickiewicz University - Poznan - POLAND Active 5’ splice site regulates the efficiency of biogenesis of Arabidopsis microRNAs derived from intron-containing genes 17:00 - 17:30 : Hervé Vaucheret - Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin - INRA Centre de Versailles-Grignon - Versailles - FRANCE Plants encode a general siRNA suppressor that is induced and suppressed by viruses 17:30 - 18:30 : 4 short talks Jean Philippe Combier : Primary transcripts of microRNAs encode regulatory peptides Rodrigo Siqueira Reis : Gene regulation by translational inhibition is determined by Dicer partnering proteins Keith Slotkin : Unraveling how transposable elements mind the post-transcriptional to transcriptional silencing gap Taline Elmayan : SGS3 is recruited to chromatin by ISWI chromatin remodelers CHR11/CHR17 for siRNA mediated post-transcriptional regulation

	18:30 - 19:00 : Lionel Navarro - IBENS, Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - Paris - FRANCE Mechanisms of bacterial-triggered suppression of PTGS and of host counter-counter defence

	19:00 - 22:30 : Poster session "Dinner around"
	Abstracts


	Saturday, July 11th 2015
	8h30 : Welcome

	Session 4 : Regulation of mRNA translation
	Chair : Pam Green, University of Delaware, Newark, USA
	Abstracts
	9:00 - 9.30 : Julia Bailey-Serres - Botany and Plant Sciences - University of California - Riverside - USA From chromatin to translation: are stress-induced transcription and translation connected ? 9:30 - 10:00 : Jean Marc Deragon - Université Perpignan Via Domitia - Laboratoire Génome et Développement des Plantes Perpignan - FRANCE Heat-induced ribosome pausing triggers mRNA cotranslational decay in Arabidopsis thaliana 10:00 - 10:45 : 3 short talks Bing Bai : Extensive translational regulation during seed germination Juliette Leymarie : Role of post-transcriptional metabolism in the regulation of Arabidopsis thaliana seed dormancy Patrycja Plewka : Comprehensive analysis of tRNA-derived small RNAs biogenesis in plants

	10:45 - 11:15 : Coffee break

	Session 5 : Long non-coding RNAs
	Chair : Cécile Bousquet-Antonelli, Université de Perpignan, FRANCE
	Abstracts
	11:15 -11:45 : Blake Meyers - University of Delaware, Delaware Biotechnology Institute - Newark - USA Secondary siRNAs and their lncRNA precursors in reproductive organs of grasses 11:45 - 12:15 : Yves Poirier - Department of Plant Molecular Biology - University of Lausanne - SWITZERLAND A rice cis-natural antisense RNA acts as a translational enhancer for its cognate mRNA and contributes to plant fitness 12:15 - 12:45 : 2 short talks Tomas Werner : Long cis-natural antisense transcripts regulate the activity of cytokinin metabolic genes and cytokinin homeostasis in Arabidopsis Natali Romero : ASCO long non-coding RNA regulates AS in Arabidopsis

	12:45 - 14:00 : Lunch time

	Session 6 : RNA stability and antisense RNAs
	Chair : Anireddy Reddy, Colorado State University, USA
	Abstracts
	14:00 -14.30 : Pam Green - University of Delaware - Delaware Biotechnology Institute - Newark - USA Insights from Endogenous Substrates of Arabidopsis XRN4 and human SMG6 Revealed by RNA Degradome Analysis 14:30 - 15:00 : Motoaki Seki - RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science - Yokohama, Kanagawa - JAPAN A rice cis-natural antisense RNA acts as a translational enhancer for its cognate mRNA and contributes to plant fitness 15:00 - 15:45 : 3 short talks Zhe Wu : Coordination of transcriptional initiation and elongation via an antisense transcript-mediated mechanism Yuanyuan Chen : Role of TE-derived small interfering RNAs in tomato pollen development and their heat stress responses Thomas Blein : The regulation of phosphate response by long-non coding RNAs

	15:45 - 16:15 : Coffee break

	Session 7 : Secondary RNA structure and RNA-protein interactions
	Chair : Hervé Vaucheret, INRA, Versailles, FRANCE
	Abstracts
	16:15 - 16:45 : Brian Gregory - University of Pennsylvania - Department of Biology - Philadelphia - USA Global analysis of the RNA secondary structure and RNA-protein interaction landscapes of plants 16:45 - 18:30 : 7 short talks Julio Saez Vazquez : Protein and RNA determinants of RTL1: a siRNA suppressor member of the RNAase III family Natalia Sikorska : Catalytic activity of the core exosome complex Marlene Reichel : Investigating the role of secondary structure and RNA-binding proteins in plant micro RNA regulation Yuda Fang : The roles of Arabidopsis CDF2 in Transcriptional and Post transcriptional Regulation of Primary RNAs Mateusz Bajczyk : SERRATE interacts with subunits of the NEXT complex and the polyadenylation machinery in Arabidopsis Marcella Amorim : Functional analysis of an Arabidopsis U1 snRNP compartment Misato Ohtani : Content of UsnRNAs, core components of spliceosome, is a determinant of plant cell capacity for dedifferentiation and organogenesis in vitro

	18:30 - 18:45 : Concluding remarks

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